Dr. Gondhalekar is an urban planner and research scientist at the Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Her research focus is integrated urban planning, Water-Energy-Food Nexus, and multi-stakeholder processes in India, Niger, Ghana and Germany.

She heads the urban Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lab Nexus@TUM and co-coordinates the TUM Water-Energy-Food Nexus field of study in the Environmental Engineering Masters Program.